--- title: "It is possible to sow barley, to wait till it grows up, to reap it… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "It is possible to sow barley, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to brew beer, to drink ourselves drunk on it, to sleep our fill, and then to set off in pursuit--and yet to be in time." Who acts: It, thunder. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/124/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/) / 124 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 124 "It is possible to sow barley, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to brew beer, to drink ourselves drunk on it, to sleep our fill, and then to set off in pursuit--and yet to be in time." **Who acts:** It, thunder · **What happens:** be, sow, wait, grow up, reap, thresh · **To what, where:** barley, thunder, beer, ourselves, fill, pursuit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, thunder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:22:124 # text = "It is possible to sow barley, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to brew beer, to drink ourselves drunk on it, to sleep our fill, and then to set off in pursuit--and yet to be in time." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 sow sow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 7 barley barley NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 till till SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 reap reap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 thresh thresh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 brew brew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 25 beer beer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 29 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 drunk drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 36 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 fill fill NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 43 off off ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 -- -- PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 48 yet yet ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 50 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 cop _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | It | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | barley | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent barley=Theme | | 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present | thunder | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **reap** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | thunder | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **thresh** *in a quote* | infinitive | | thunder | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **brew** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | beer | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product | | 8 | **drink** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | ourselves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient | | 9 | **drink** *in a quote* | participle | | | | thunder | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | our fill | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Theme | | 11 | **set off** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | pursuit | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | in time; yet | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/125/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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